Percy Maxim Lee was an American political and social reformer who was involved in leadership roles in various institutions.
Lee was president of the League of Women Voters of the United States from 1950 to 1958, during the period when Joseph McCarthy was alleging communist influence throughout the US government and other institutions.
[5] In 1953, she was active in a League of Women Voters campaign to promote "more solid backing of the United Nations, a more liberal international trade policy, and restoration of technical assistance (Point Four) funds" to foreign countries.
[8] She later testified against the Bricker Amendment limiting Presidential treaty-making powers and strongly supported the League's study of international trade and individual liberty.
She quoted the League position in a letter to a proponent of the ERA that first, that it "would do violence to the political system embodied in our Constitution" by allowing Congress to make rules on matters formerly reserved to local bodies, and later, that it would create confusion and uncertainty and invite litigation.